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Nel 2012 i libri del fondo antico della Biblioteca di scienze sociali di Firenze presentano i primi segnali di deterioramento delle legature, a causa delle forti escursioni di temperatura e umidità dell'ambiente di conservazione. Mentre l'Ateneo realizza un nuovo impianto di climatizzazione, la Regione Toscana e i funzionari della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze elaborano un progetto per la messa in sicurezza dell'intero fondo, per rallentare il processo di deterioramento dei materiali e prevenire o stabilizzare i danni già presenti. L'innovativa metodica messa in atto nella Biblioteca è stata illustrata in un seminario tenuto il 24 novembre 2016 presso il Polo di scienze sociali dell'Università di Firenze e il presente volume raccoglie gli interventi dei partecipanti.

Books --- Library materials --- Conservation and restoration

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Digital Samaritans explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the book is rooted in a practical digital humanities project based on the digitization of manuscripts in diaspora for the Samaritan community, the smallest religious/ethnic group of 770 Samaritans split between Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian Authority and in Holon, Israel. Based on interviews with members of the Samaritan community and archival research, Digital Samaritans explores what some Samaritans want from their diaspora of manuscripts, and how their rhetorical goals and objectives relate to the contemporary existential and rhetorical situation of the Samaritans as a living, breathing people. How does the circulation of Samaritan manuscripts, especially in digital environments, relate to their rhetorical circumstances and future goals and objectives to communicate their unique cultural history and religious identity to their neighbors and the world? Digital Samaritans takes up these questions and more as it presents a case for collaboration and engaged scholarship situated at the intersection of rhetorical studies and the digital humanities.

Library materials --- Learning and scholarship --- Samaritans --- Digitization. --- Technological innovations. --- Historiography. --- Tsedaka, Benyamim. --- Samaritan religion --- Samaritanism --- Jews --- Digitalization of library materials --- Digitization of library materials --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Research --- Scholars --- Religion --- Tsedakah, Benyamim --- צדקה, בנימים

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Books --- Imperialism --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- History. --- Historiography. --- Great Britain --- Colonies

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Air quality management --- Archival materials --- Indoor air pollution --- Library materials --- Museum conservation methods --- Conservation and restoration

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Memory institutions such as libraries, archives, galleries and museums all share pressing concerns about preserving heritage, whether in the form of material and documentary cultural artefacts in collections, or in the form of new digitally born material. Recent incidents of natural disaster and cultural genocide, together with the global turn to digitization, have forced librarians, archivists and curators to rethink and restructure their primary modes of operation. Preservation management now sits at the top of the agenda for heritage institutions around the world, as collection development policies and practices are negotiated between libraries, museums, archives, funding agencies and governments. Historically separate cultural institutions are now converging to share limited resources, develop compatible ideologies and co-ordinate distributed collections. This forward-looking collection charts the diversity of preservation management in the contemporary information landscape, and offers guidance on preservation methods for the sustainability of collections from a range of international experts. The authors are connected to a wide international network of professional associations and NGOs, and have been selected not only for their specific expertise, but for the contribution they are making to the future of preservation management. The chapters cover: managing the documentary heritage: issues for the present and future; preservation policy and planning; intangible heritage: museums and preservation; surrogacy and the artefact; moving with the times in search of permanence; a valuation model for paper conservation research; preservation of audiovisual media: traditional to interactive formats; challenges of managing the digitally born artefact; preserving cultural heritage in times of conflict; and access and the social contract in memory institutions redefining 'the collection' in the 21st century. There is urgent need for heritage management initiatives and robust disaster planning that will safeguard our cultural heritage and recognize the right of the end-user to ownership of it. This is an informed and essential guide to managing collection and preservation strategies for anyone working in the library, archive, museum or broader cultural heritage sectors.

Archivistics --- -Archival materials --- -Museum conservation methods --- 025.84 --- Archival materials --- Library materials --- Museum conservation methods. --- Paper --- Conservation and restoration. --- Digitization. --- Preservation. --- Museum conservation methods --- Digitalization of library materials --- Digitization of library materials --- Conservation of library materials --- Preservation of library materials --- Digitalization of archival materials --- Digitization of archival materials --- Conservation of archival materials --- Preservation of archival materials --- Conservation methods, Museum --- Museum techniques --- Conservation and restoration --- Digitization --- Preservation --- Deterioration